Improvement in shirts



J. H. MEYERS.

lmproyement in Shirts.

NoLI23,-72I. Patnted Feb. 13, I872.

venience arises.

UNITED STATES JAMES H. MYERS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO OLIVER H.KEEP, OF

' SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHIRTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 123,721, dated February13, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES H. MYERS, of New York, in the county of NewYork and in the State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Shirts; and do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing making a part of this specification, in whichFigure 1 is a View of the front side of my device, and Fig.2 is a likeView of its rear side.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of thefigures.

In the construction of gentlemens shirts, but few, comparatively, havesufficient skill to enable them to properly tit that portion of thegarment that embraces the neck and shoulders, from which lack of skillmuch incon- To remedy this difficulty is the object of my invention,which consists in a new article of manufacture, substantially as and forthe purpose hereinafter specified.

In the annexed drawing, A represents the bosom, B the front, 0 the yoke,and D the neck-bandof a shirt constructed and combined in such a manneras to cause them to conform to the sh ape of aperson having a certainchest and neck measurement, and a certain slope of shoulders. Thearticle thus constituted is complete in itself, and in various sizes issold as an article of commerce. In order to complete the shirt it isonly necessary that the back and sleeves should be added; and as thisportion of the work requires but little skill, and as the article ofmanufacture can be furnished at a less cost than would be possible ifeach were made separately and by hand, its sale enables any person tohave well-fitted shirts, and also materially reduces the cost of thesame by rendering available comparatively unskilled labor.

Having thus fully set forth the nature and merits of my invention, whatIclaim is As a new article of manufacture, a shirtbosom, front, yoke, andneck-band combined, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this12th day of January, 1872.-

\ JAMES H. MYERS. Witnesses:

WM. F. LETT, L. J. MOKENNA.

